pins and needles
so... heres my plan. i earned about 60 dollars this weekend working... so i'm going to buy my OU-TX ticket on tuesday and turn around and do the nasty: sell it on sin or ebay for about 600-700 for both mine and kate's ticket. with this money, i can pay my sister back and have a little extra. i still need a job, this isn't a copout, its just a means of coming to the surface. and i'm still looking. please hire me.
Garden State: This movie has been critisized as "beautiful scenery with no strong plot." I couldn't disagree more. of course, the scenery is beautiful, and so are the people; however, the plot couldn't be more relevent in today's society. I follow Adbusters, it's the only magazine i can read from the beginning to the end nonstop. One of the top concerns featured in Adbusters is the numbing of society as doctors simply perscribe whatever the patient wants to chemically make them feel better. drugs have become the answer. as long as people are depressed, doctors will continue to help them take the easy way out. All these drugs make people absolutely numb to themselves and to the people around them. This is the key plot to the movie. As he resensitises himself, and begins to teach himself to be happy in life and not take the easy way out, all i can see is one of the strongest and most essential plots of our time. I hope that this movie will affect people in our society to follow in the footsteps of Andrew Largeman. I've worked in a pharmacy and seen the numb addicts, i've read countless stories in Adbusters of people who are happier feeling the depression and pain as long as they're still feeling, and i've seen the numbness in our society.
Garden State is a critical movie, a beautiful movie, and has a spectacular soundtrack. If i wasn't so dumbfounded, i'm sure i could write more clearly and more deeply.
Garden State: This movie has been critisized as "beautiful scenery with no strong plot." I couldn't disagree more. of course, the scenery is beautiful, and so are the people; however, the plot couldn't be more relevent in today's society. I follow Adbusters, it's the only magazine i can read from the beginning to the end nonstop. One of the top concerns featured in Adbusters is the numbing of society as doctors simply perscribe whatever the patient wants to chemically make them feel better. drugs have become the answer. as long as people are depressed, doctors will continue to help them take the easy way out. All these drugs make people absolutely numb to themselves and to the people around them. This is the key plot to the movie. As he resensitises himself, and begins to teach himself to be happy in life and not take the easy way out, all i can see is one of the strongest and most essential plots of our time. I hope that this movie will affect people in our society to follow in the footsteps of Andrew Largeman. I've worked in a pharmacy and seen the numb addicts, i've read countless stories in Adbusters of people who are happier feeling the depression and pain as long as they're still feeling, and i've seen the numbness in our society.
Garden State is a critical movie, a beautiful movie, and has a spectacular soundtrack. If i wasn't so dumbfounded, i'm sure i could write more clearly and more deeply.
posted by bitterhoney at 7:31 PM
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This is bugging me. Now, I don't want to get drawn into an unproductive debate about antidepressants and who sees what kind of numbness and what people are addicted to, but you hooked me with the remark about doctors simply prescribing whatever the patient wants. There are many issues. The first is direct-to-customer advertising by pharmaceutical companies that creates the whole issue of patients wanting any drugs. In many countries this is not allowed because people get caught up in marketing hype.
Now - depression and mental illness are not new concepts created by Eli and Pfizer in order to sell drugs to chumps. They have been recognized for years and treatments have been used against them for decades. They are medical conditions that require pharmacological and/or psychological therapy in order to heal or improve the patient's status.
Usually, counseling is the first line of treatment for mild depression. Now that everyone has seen the happy oval on TV and in Time magazine, they think antidepressants are some kind of upper or something. Of course, they're not - they're psychoactive medications that are used to get people to eat when they won't eat, or leave the house when they can't, or to keep them from cutting up their wrists, again.
Well, so what. The point is, while doctors may be complicit in reinforcing the pharmaceutical advertising scheme, it wasn't their idea and once a patient comes in demanding something and has the means to pay for it, either you give it to them or they take their business to someone else who will. We are just trying to make a living like everyone else, and we are not arbiters of culture or gods who get to control people to fit into the adbusters ideal world or anyone's ideal world.
If you want to talk about people who go around all numb, why not talk about all the kids in Manila, or Addis Ababa, or Brazil who run around huffing glue all day because it suppresses their appetite, and have five sexual encounters a day with stragers, usually foreign sex tourists, and then sleep at night on a roof of a building so they don't get shot from above by police officers or vigilantes. Or why not talk about all the poor people in the US who desperately need treatment for their mental illness but don't have jobs or insurance to pay for it and go on with nothing. Honestly, the issue of what kind of drug the suburban bourgeiouse are on these days and how it's such a big problem is SO a problem of people who have three months off every summer, and I say that as respectfully as possible =)
On a related note, I laugh out loud every time someone talks about how much less toxic for your body herbal supplements or whatever are. It's funny because all those things are poisons and they, just like some prescription drugs, can kill you the same way they're supposed to kill ants and stuff. Anyway that is all I have to say about the topic. Edward Spencer.
quick note: i am critisizing the 3 month off every summer people who want to be on antidepressants because their boyfriend broke up with them, who hear about it and decided that it would be fun to try, who keep taking more and more. NOT those who actually are in need of the antidepressants, who have tried other means first, and who are benefitting from them... and yes, there are those people who might actually need them or at least counselling, but don't have the money for it. i was merely pointing out the growing use of the drugs when not needed, or the mental addiction by so many people to these drugs. through working at a pharmacy, i saw many people coming in shaking they were on so many drugs, they barely knew where they were, and all i watched was their prescriptions increase and increase and change, and what was paying for this? medicaid. i heard them talk about how happy the drugs make them and how they need more, and they took more than they should. yes, this is an extreme case, but its a growing extreme case. don't take my criticism wrong, not everyone falls into this category.
children in south america and all over the world should be focused on more, and brought into more attention, yes. why can't we use money going into these drug adds, and tax money to help them? all in all, i think people (upper middle-class public school goers and more) need to take a look around and see that there are more serious problems in the world, and that their life is REALLY not that bad. hundreds of thousands of people wish to be in their place every day.
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